Input the password of the old server and it will securely copy the Old Vest to the New Vesta backup folder.

Once it’s downloaded, restore the user called admin

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v-restore-user admin admin.2016-10-30.tar

Your New Server will have been migrated!

SUPER FAST VESTACP MIGRATION METHOD – MILLISECOND DOWNTIME

Open Cloudflare account that holds the website you are migrating.
Open two terminals
In Terminal 1 SSH into your Old Server.
In Terminal 2 SSH into your New Server.
Make sure VestaCP is installed on the New Server (Terminal 2).
In the Terminal 1 Old Server execute

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date

Note down the date, for example, “Sun Oct 30 00:22:33 UTC 2016”.
Now in the same Terminal 1 Old Server type (but don’t press enter yet!)

Execute the “v-backup-user admin” command on the Terminal 1 Old Server
Wait a few seconds until the backup is done, or minutes if it’s a big website.
As soon as the backup is done, execute the scp “-oStrictHo….” on Terminal 2 New Server
Paste the password for the old server and the migration will begin.

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admin.2016-10-29.tar 100% 15MB 14.8MB/s 00:01

As soon as it’s done, in the same Terminal (Terminal 2 New Server) execute:

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v-restore-user admin admin.2016-10-30.tar

Wait a few seconds until the backup is restored, or minutes if it’s a big website.